Wind-shield mounting.



P. N. LANDINE. WIND SHIELD MOUNTING. APPLICATION FILED mnfv', 191a.

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WIND SHIELD MOUNTING. APPLiOATION TIL/ED MARJ, 1913.

Patented nec zg, 1914.

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- i credits cheese PETEE N. LQNDINE, 0F MILEQRD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR .LG

EOSTATLEIFJ EIAEFUFAC'EUZEING CfiI-IEANY, 0F MILFORD, GONNEGTICUT, A GORPOEXATIGN @F GGNIQECTICUT.

Application filed March 7, 1913. fi' erial lilo. 7352,5432.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, PETER N. LANDINE, c

citizen oft-ho United States, residing at Milford, New Haven county, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Windshield Mountings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to ige joint mountings for wind shields for motor core and the like, and is designed to provide means whereby the shield tselt may be readily attached ht any time and whereby the movable section thereof may be readily and 'firmly clamped in ad usted position.

In the manufacture of motor cars, it frequently happens that, with the prior constructions of wind shield mountings, the painting of the car bodies will be delayed owing to the non-arrival of the wind shields,

which it was necessary to first attach to the ca-r'betore painting the same. This not only resulted in delay, but the practice of attachthe wind shield to the our body before painting frequently resulted in the glass of the wind shield being broken during the pointing operation, and in its frame and other parts being stained and soiled by the paint.

The present invention aims to provide a construction whereby the Wind shield frame may be attached to the car after its body has been pointed, and in addition, aims to provide on eflicient form of hinge joint for the movable section of the wind shield which onables said section to be securely clamped in adjusted position and to be readily applied to the car body after coming from the paint shop..

These and other advantages are more specifically recited in the following detailed specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part thereor and illustrating a preferable embodiment of the invention.

In these drawings, Figure l is a view in side elevation of my improved form of wind shield mounting. Fig. 2 is a view in end elevation of said parts. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through said ports on the 1ine,aa, Fig. 4. Fig. i is a transverse vertical section on theline ?)b of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of the parts of the bracket socket detached. Fig. dis a detail of the clamping ring.

Referring to the drawings by numerals 1 indicates c bracket plate adapted to be cured, for instance, to the roof of a motor car at a point above the dash. This bracket is provided with an integral and substatitially semi-circular socket section 52 extend- Peteicted Dec 2%, ieic,

log therefrom and provided at its end with s 7 foot 3 to which the upper end of a supporti ing' standard 4 is appropriately secured,

this standard being attached, for instance, to the upper edge or a built in dash which may form, inefiect, the stationary portion of the wind shield.

in the bracket plate 1, adjacent the upper end of its socket portion 2, I provide an ennuler socket 5 designed to connect to the bracket alste the complemehtal section 6 of the socket, this section 6 being provided at its upper end with. e knuckle 7 seating within the socket 5 and hinging thesectiou 6 to the bracket plate and in. cooperative relation with its complementsl socket section 2. The

provision of the knuckle '2 permits the sect on 6 to be readily attached to the bracket plate .1, this knucl'le fitting the socket 5 snugly and yet permitting the section 6 to move freely relatively to-the fixed section 2 of the socket member which these two complementol sections provide. The lower end of the movable section 6 is provided with a foot piece 8 having a curved edge, and the foot 3 of the fixed section is provided with a, corresponding curved face 9. A. smooth bore l0 extends through the foot portion 8 of the movable section, and an interiorly threaded and alined bore 10 is provided. in the foot portion 3 of the fixed section. At their lower and abutting edges the interior feces'of the two socket sections are shoul dered down to provide shoulders or abut:

nature of a tenon, the two sections forming a substantially annular socket provided with,

av substantially annular rib.

The two socket sections are formed to pro vide at minimum opening less than the comfilete circle of the tires of their inner surfaces so that they may be moved to clamp therebetween a. circular hub member. 1'11 order to effect. this result, a threaded bolt 15 is pro nted to be inserted through the 1.0? 0 of the socket n'ieinhcr, its

"ng' tl'icftln'ends of the here a Winged 16 being pro ereby the feet 8--9 of the .1; may he brought together to requisite friction and pr nih n'ieinher which inseiec socket. T is his huh nien'iher l h. :1. control channel with out "'d walls 19 the cross secmis chennelhcing sligl tly than we rih portion 13 of the socket sec- Eo this hub member appropriately a channel her 20 forming the frzune cmii vjiofi he cl of the movable sec- 2 This cln nnoi la tion s" ttnchciil by any suitable incline :is to i v *'ojec"ing ..;o1n the hnl) 12'.

)e intidcrstood, of course, while have only lexriha-vd one hinge j "nt fitting, that in vrzictice two supports ivill be provided, one

z I I or each end of the Wind shield.

The beveled sides ii of the socket member and the Lev d Wells 19 of the channel of the hm member 17 are designed to frictionic e when the wi g; nut 15 is manipuchimp the rib 1 Wl. -hin the channel of the hill ineinhcn I n v secure additiono.

n fi-ieticc l pref l by A ing a g idnptec to 591i? 7 l8 and provided may he engaged 11 and ot the inn 'lMUlJBl 17. At the some colder l2 Wlll seen, there i. rat a on lock secnree Ines friction surfaces are sides of the rib huh end socket riction-rin one face of the f b 21. to read; position of the 1e channel her 2% cry to turn the he i'lCi-KOH to :1,

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ction curried h is It Will swung to the desired angle, whereupon the winged head is again nninipulated provide locking friction as hcreinhcfore scribed.

The lnzicket plates with their socket mem- Je may he applied to the car body before t painted and the Wind shield section at eched thereti'i after the painting operation 2y reason of the fact that the eocket member is provided-with a fixed portion and a relativcly movable portion. which affords an enlarged area of socket opening and permits the hub fitting of the wind shield section to be inserted therein and clamped when the movable section of the socket portion moved back to iilccrczise the size of socket opening. In addition to this feature, the provision of the channeled and ribbed structures of the interlociiing parts affords a very strong and elhcient friction clamp. The hub member being provided with a central chunnel therein, dispenses with the necessity of providing separate end plates, the endfzioes of the hub serving end. plates and the ribbed portion of the socket member seating" in the central. annular. channel of the socket member. 1

Wliil e I have herein described a preferable embodiment of my invention, should be understood that the some may be altered 1 detail and relative arrangement of parts Within the spirit the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a joint for Wind shields, hingedl v connected parts, one of said including a cylindrical huh having an nil-- nulor i'l'QOVQ herein with outwardly i oppositely tapering side walls, and the other of said ii-i1 a plate lmving an oinfiworrly.ofiset and rein tivelv fixed socket portion arranged to seen; in said hub groove and to partially embrace its periph ry and having a coinplenienlnl relatively movable socket portion hinged thereto and arranged. to seat in the groove of said hub and embrace that portion of its periphery opposite to fixed socket portion, said socket portions having;' their hub contacting faces shaped so to partially fill said huh groove'and become vedpjed therein and he oppositely disjosed ohntmeni's internally thereof, meme ellv controlled means "for clamping; said socket portions about said huh and into edging engagement with the Walls of its groove to hold said huh fixedly positioned between said socket members and :1 friction ring seated around the hill) at the base of its groove having oilset ends cooperating with said socket portion nbutinents and operable by relative movement of said socket portions to frictionz'lllv engage said hub.

2i hinged joint "for Wind shicld :1

as including supporting bracket .gligii socket member forming one of two relatively member arranged to be fixedly secured to movable hinged parts, said socket member including a fixed portionarra'nged to partially encircle the other part, and a relatively movable portion hinged to the fixed portion, said hinged portion being arranged to embrace the other part on the side opposite the fixed portion, said other part including a cylindrical hub arranged between the fixed and movable parts of the socket, the hinge connection between the parts of the socket comprising a knuckle arranged at one end of the hinged part, said fixed part being grooved transversely from one edge providing a socket to permit said knuckle 'to be inserted by a sliding movement transversely of the fixed part; and a clamping bolt arranged to secure the other end of the hinged member to the-fixed member and to cause the two parts of said socket member tofrietionally embrace and hold the hub, said hub having an annular groove with oppositely and outwardly tapered side Walls, said socket members being shaped on their inner sides to partially fill said annular groove and to become wedged therein and having oppositely disposed abutments thereon, and a friction ring seat ed around the hub in the bottom of the channel having oii'set holding ends cooperating with the socket member abutments to engage and clamp the hub.

3. In a joint for Wind shields a bracket the under face of a support and forming one of two relatively movable hinged parts, said bracket member comprising a solid base portion having an integral and substantially semi-circular portion elttending therefrom, said base being grooved transversely from one edge to provide a socket, and a complemental substantially semi-circular socket member separate from said base and having at one end a knuckle arranged for insertion Within said transverse groove by a sliding movement transversely of said base to hinge said knuckle thereto, the other of said parts including a cylindrical hub member arranged for insertion between the fixed and movable sections of the socket member, said latter member being provided With means arranged to move the hinged section relatively to the fixed section to cause said sections to frictionally embrace and hold said hub member, said hub member having an annular groove therein with oppositely and outwardly tapering Walls, and said socket members having their hub-contacting faces shaped so as to partially fill said hub groove and become wedged therein when the parts of. the socket are moved into engagement with said hubj PETER N. LANDINE. Witnesses: I a K. FRANCES MAGINN, B. G. Connor. 7 

